@papayalily Got it. I would never tell young children I don’t believe in God. I have had children ask me about my religion, and I tell them about Judiasm, but I never inject my beliefs in those discussions. I have never had children ask if I believe in God though, when I was kid or an adult, with one exception. A close friend of mine moved to Alabama in tenth grade, and when I saw her a year later she, with almost disgust in her voice she said, “how can you not believe Jesus is God?” She knew I was Jewish of course. We have never even talked about God before, all the years I knew her, or whether I was an atheist or not. Not that it mattered, just being Jewish was enough for her at that point in time. She had become born again in her new town. She has since let go of trying to convert, or judge other people’s beliefs.
How annoying those neighbors of yours. My mother-in-law who is Catholic, religious, and believes in God, read her neighbor the riot act, because the neighbor and the neighbor’s children kept talking about God and their religion to her elementary aged granddaughter, she is my niece by marriage). If they are high school age I would answer the question truthfully if I was asked directly.